Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Vegetation and climate changes during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles in the western Mediterranean: a new long pollen record from Padul (southern Iberian …

J Camuera, G Jiménez-Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new sediment core from Padul, Padul-15-05, provides a long and continuous sedimentary
and paleoenvironmental record of the last∼ 200 kyr. Here we present a detailed …

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

B Wagner, H Vogel, A Francke, T Friedrich, T Donders… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry
summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic …

1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial–interglacial cycle strength

T Donders, K Panagiotopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The sediment record from Lake Ohrid (Southwestern Balkans) represents the longest
continuous lake archive in Europe, extending back to 1.36 Ma. We reconstruct the …

A critical reevaluation of palaeoclimate proxy records from loess in the Carpathian Basin

I Obreht, C Zeeden, U Hambach, D Veres… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Carpathian Basin, loess is the most important archive of Quaternary
palaeoclimate evolution, but only in the past two decades systematic and high-resolution …

African climate response to orbital and glacial forcing in 140,000-y simulation with implications for early modern human environments

JE Kutzbach, J Guan, F He, AS Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A climate/vegetation model simulates episodic wetter and drier periods at the 21,000-y
precession period in eastern North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Levant over the …

Tracing the influence of Mediterranean climate on Southeastern Europe during the past 350,000 years

I Obreht, C Zeeden, U Hambach, D Veres… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Loess-palaeosol sequences are valuable archives of past environmental changes. Although
regional palaeoclimatic trends and conditions in Southeastern Europe have been inferred …

New records of vegetation and climate changes in the Sea of Marmara during the Marine Isotope Stages 3, 4 and 5 (ac)

D Biltekin, KK Eriş, MN Çağatay, P Henry… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
A giant piston core MRS-CS27 sedimentary sequence in the Sea of Marmara (SoM) was
investigated by palynological analysis to evaluate the paleoenvironmental and climate …

An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic …

F Badino, R Pini, C Ravazzi, D Margaritora… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the current state of knowledge about the millennial scale climate
variability characterizing Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in S-Europe and the Mediterranean …

Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change

P Kirschner, MF Perez, E Záveská, I Sanmartín… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quaternary climatic oscillations had a large impact on European biogeography. Alternation
of cold and warm stages caused recurrent glaciations, massive vegetation shifts, and large …